Lot 129

Mississippian Stone Mask & Zoomorphic Pipes, Lot of 4

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Mississippian Stone Mask & Zoomorphic Pipes, Lot of 4
Mississippian Stone Mask & Zoomorphic Pipes, Lot of 4
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Mississippian Stone Mask & Zoomorphic Pipes, Lot of 4

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
by Artemis Fine Arts
June 25, 2026 9:00 AM MDT (In Progress)
Live Auction
686 S. Taylor Avenue
Suite 108
Louisville, CO, US 80027

Native American, Southeastern United States, Georgia, Mississippian culture, ca. 800 to 1600 CE. A group of four carved stone objects from the mound-building cultures of the American Southeast, comprising a large face effigy plaque and three zoomorphic platform pipes. The face effigy is the most commanding presence in the group: a flattened ovoid stone worked into a schematic human visage with deeply incised eye sockets, a broad nose, and an open rectangular mouth, its austere frontality recalling the ceremonial face imagery associated with the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. The three pipes are each modeled in the round from dense grey stone, their forms resolving into the shapes of a fish, a frog, and an anthropomorphic head, each pierced through the body for the passage of smoke in the platform pipe tradition widely distributed across Woodland and Mississippian contexts. Together the four objects reflect the rich lapidary tradition of the mound-building cultures, whose carvers transformed river stone into objects of ritual potency and social prestige across the woodlands and river valleys of the pre-contact South. Size of largest (fish pipe): 4.8" W x 2.2" H x 2.3" D (12.2 cm W x 5.6 cm H x 5.8 cm D)

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private New York, USA collection, acquired December 2020

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Item # 202373

  • Condition: Very Good. Weathering to surfaces with nicks and abrasions as shown. Otherwise, all are intact and very nice with liberal remaining detail and rich earthen deposits throughout.

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Bid Increments
From: To: Increments:
$0 $299 $25
$300 $999 $50
$1,000 $1,999 $100
$2,000 $4,999 $250
$5,000 $9,999 $500
$10,000 $19,999 $1,000
$20,000 $49,999 $2,500
$50,000 $99,999 $5,000
$100,000 $199,999 $10,000
$200,000 + $20,000